EP2979501B1 - Procédé et équipement utilisateur correspondant de transmission de signaux dans la liaison montante des émissions parasites réduites - Google Patents

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EP2979501B1
EP2979501B1 EP14774854.5A EP14774854A EP2979501B1 EP 2979501 B1 EP2979501 B1 EP 2979501B1 EP 14774854 A EP14774854 A EP 14774854A EP 2979501 B1 EP2979501 B1 EP 2979501B1
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  • the present invention relates to a method for transmitting an uplink signal to minimize spurious emission and user equipment thereof.
  • 3GPP 3rd Generation Partnership Project
  • LTE Long Term Evolution
  • UMTS Universal Mobile Telecommunication System
  • OFDMA orthogonal frequency division multiple access
  • SC-FDMA single carrier-frequency division multiple access
  • OFDM may attenuate inter-symbol interference with low complexity and is in use.
  • OFDM converts data serially input into N parallel data pieces and carries the data pieces over N orthogonal sub-carriers. The sub-carriers maintain orthogonality in view of frequency.
  • OFDMA refers to a multiple access scheme that realizes multiple access by independently providing each user with some of sub-carriers available in the system that adopts OFDM as its modulation scheme.
  • Fig. 1 illustrates a 3GPP LTE wireless communication system.
  • the wireless communication system includes at least one base station (BS) 20.
  • Each base station 20 offers a communication service in a specific geographical area (generally denoted cell) 20a, 20b, and 20c.
  • DL downlink
  • UL uplink
  • the BSs 20 provided from a plurality of service providers are located at respective geographical regions 20a, 20b, and 20c, the BSs 20 may interfere with each other.
  • the respective service providers may provide a service with different frequency bands.
  • the disclosures in the specification a method for transmitting an uplink signal to minimize a spurious emission capable of limiting a maximum level with respect to the spurious emission leaked to a neighboring band, and user equipment thereof.
  • an aspect of the present invention is related to a method according to claim 1 and further detailed in the dependent claims referring back to this claim.
  • Another aspect of the present invention is related to a user equipment according to claim 5 and further detailed in the dependent claims referring back to this claim.
  • the spurious emission leaked to a neighboring band may be reduced, interference with a neighboring channel can be reduced.
  • 'wireless device' may be stationary or mobile, and may be denoted by other terms such as terminal, MT (mobile terminal), UE (user equipment), ME (mobile equipment), MS (mobile station), UT (user terminal), SS (subscriber station), handheld device, or AT (access terminal).
  • terminal MT (mobile terminal), UE (user equipment), ME (mobile equipment), MS (mobile station), UT (user terminal), SS (subscriber station), handheld device, or AT (access terminal).
  • 'base station' generally refers to a fixed station that communicates with a wireless device and may be denoted by other terms such as eNB (evolved-NodeB), BTS (base transceiver system), or access point.
  • eNB evolved-NodeB
  • BTS base transceiver system
  • LTE includes LTE and/or LTE-A.
  • the LTE system defined by the 3GPP adopted such MIMO.
  • the LTE system is described in further detail.
  • Fig. 2 illustrates the architecture of a radio frame according to FDD in 3GPP LTE.
  • the radio frame consists of 10 sub-frames, and each sub-frame includes two slots.
  • the slots in the radio frame are numbered with slot numbers 0 to 19.
  • the time taken for one sub-frame to be transmitted is denoted TTI (transmission time interval).
  • the TTI may be a scheduling unit for data transmission.
  • the length of one radio frame is 10ms
  • the length of one sub-frame is 1ms
  • the length of one slot may be 0.5ms.
  • radio frame is merely an example, and the number of sub-frames in the radio frame or the number of slots in each sub-frame may be changed variously.
  • one slot may include a plurality of OFDM symbols. How many OFDM symbols are included in one slot may vary depending on cyclic prefix (CP).
  • CP cyclic prefix
  • Fig. 3 illustrates the architecture of a downlink radio frame according to TDD in 3GPP LTE.
  • the radio frame includes 10 sub-frames indexed 0 to 9.
  • One sub-frame includes two consecutive slots.
  • the time for one sub-frame to be transmitted is denoted TTI (transmission time interval).
  • TTI transmission time interval
  • the length of one sub-frame may be 1ms
  • the length of one slot may be 0.5ms.
  • One slot may include a plurality of OFDM (orthogonal frequency division multiplexing) symbols in the time domain.
  • the OFDM symbol is merely to represent one symbol period in the time domain since 3GPP LTE adopts OFDMA (orthogonal frequency division multiple access) for downlink (DL), and thus, the multiple access scheme or name is not limited thereto.
  • OFDM symbol may be denoted by other terms such as SC-FDMA (single carrier-frequency division multiple access) symbol or symbol period.
  • one slot includes seven OFDM symbols.
  • the number of OFDM symbols included in one slot may vary depending on the length of CP (cyclic prefix).
  • CP cyclic prefix
  • Resource block is a resource allocation unit and includes a plurality of sub-carriers in one slot. For example, if one slot includes seven OFDM symbols in the time domain and the resource block includes 12 sub-carriers in the frequency domain, one resource block may include 7x12 resource elements (REs).
  • REs resource elements
  • Sub-frames having index #1 and index #6 are denoted special sub-frames, and include a DwPTS(Downlink Pilot Time Slot: DwPTS), a GP(Guard Period) and an UpPTS(Uplink Pilot Time Slot).
  • the DwPTS is used for initial cell search, synchronization, or channel estimation in a terminal.
  • the UpPTS is used for channel estimation in the base station and for establishing uplink transmission sync of the terminal.
  • the GP is a period for removing interference that arises on uplink due to a multi-path delay of a downlink signal between uplink and downlink.
  • a DL (downlink) sub-frame and a UL (Uplink) co-exist in one radio frame.
  • Table 1 shows an example of configuration of a radio frame.
  • 'D' denotes a DL sub-frame
  • 'U' a UL sub-frame
  • 'S' a special sub-frame.
  • the DL (downlink) sub-frame is split into a control region and a data region in the time domain.
  • the control region includes up to three first OFDM symbols in the first slot of the sub-frame. However, the number of OFDM symbols included in the control region may be changed.
  • a PDCCH and other control channels are assigned to the control region, and a PDSCH is assigned to the data region.
  • Fig. 4 illustrates an example resource grid for one uplink or downlink slot in 3GPP LTE.
  • the uplink slot includes a plurality of OFDM (orthogonal frequency division multiplexing) symbols in the time domain and NRB resource blocks (RBs) in the frequency domain.
  • RBs resource blocks
  • the number of resource blocks (RBs), i.e., NRB may be one from 6 to 110.
  • one resource block includes 7x12 resource elements that consist of seven OFDM symbols in the time domain and 12 sub-carriers in the frequency domain.
  • the number of sub-carriers in the resource block and the number of OFDM symbols are not limited thereto.
  • the number of OFDM symbols in the resource block or the number of sub-carriers may be changed variously. In other words, the number of OFDM symbols may be varied depending on the above-described length of CP.
  • 3GPP LTE defines one slot as having seven OFDM symbols in the case of CP and six OFDM symbols in the case of extended CP.
  • OFDM symbol is to represent one symbol period, and depending on system, may also be denoted SC-FDMA symbol, OFDM symbol, or symbol period.
  • the resource block is a unit of resource allocation and includes a plurality of sub-carriers in the frequency domain.
  • the number of resource blocks included in the uplink slot, i.e., NUL, is dependent upon an uplink transmission bandwidth set in a cell.
  • Each element on the resource grid is denoted resource element.
  • the number of sub-carriers in one OFDM symbol may be one of 128, 256, 512, 1024, 1536, and 2048.
  • the resource grid for one uplink slot shown in Fig. 4 may also apply to the resource grid for the downlink slot.
  • Fig. 5 illustrates the architecture of a downlink sub-frame.
  • the radio frame includes 10 sub-frames indexed 0 to 9.
  • One sub-frame includes two consecutive slots. Accordingly, the radio frame includes 20 slots.
  • the time taken for one sub-frame to be transmitted is denoted TTI (transmission time interval).
  • TTI transmission time interval
  • the length of one sub-frame may be 1ms
  • the length of one slot may be 0.5ms.
  • One slot may include a plurality of OFDM (orthogonal frequency division multiplexing) symbols in the time domain.
  • OFDM symbol is merely to represent one symbol period in the time domain since 3GPP LTE adopts OFDMA (orthogonal frequency division multiple access) for downlink (DL), and the multiple access scheme or name is not limited thereto.
  • the OFDM symbol may be referred to as SC-FDMA (single carrier-frequency division multiple access) symbol or symbol period.
  • one slot includes seven OFDM symbols, by way of example.
  • the number of OFDM symbols included in one slot may vary depending on the length of CP (cyclic prefix). That is, as described above, according to 3GPP TS 36.211 V10.4.0, one slot includes seven OFDM symbols in the normal CP and six OFDM symbols in the extended CP.
  • Resource block is a unit for resource allocation and includes a plurality of sub-carriers in one slot. For example, if one slot includes seven OFDM symbols in the time domain and the resource block includes 12 sub-carriers in the frequency domain, one resource block may include 7x12 resource elements (REs).
  • REs resource elements
  • the DL (downlink) sub-frame is split into a control region and a data region in the time domain.
  • the control region includes up to first three OFDM symbols in the first slot of the sub-frame. However, the number of OFDM symbols included in the control region may be changed.
  • a PDCCH (physical downlink control channel) and other control channels are assigned to the control region, and a PDSCH is assigned to the data region.
  • the physical channels in 3GPP LTE may be classified into data channels such as PDSCH (physical downlink shared channel) and PUSCH (physical uplink shared channel) and control channels such as PDCCH (physical downlink control channel), PCFICH (physical control format indicator channel), PHICH (physical hybrid-ARQ indicator channel) and PUCCH (physical uplink control channel).
  • data channels such as PDSCH (physical downlink shared channel) and PUSCH (physical uplink shared channel)
  • control channels such as PDCCH (physical downlink control channel), PCFICH (physical control format indicator channel), PHICH (physical hybrid-ARQ indicator channel) and PUCCH (physical uplink control channel).
  • the PCFICH transmitted in the first OFDM symbol of the sub-frame carries CIF (control format indicator) regarding the number (i.e., size of the control region) of OFDM symbols used for transmission of control channels in the sub-frame.
  • the wireless device first receives the CIF on the PCFICH and then monitors the PDCCH.
  • the PCFICH is transmitted through a fixed PCFICH resource in the sub-frame without using blind decoding.
  • the PHICH carries an ACK (positive-acknowledgement)/NACK (negative-acknowledgement) signal for a UL HARQ (hybrid automatic repeat request).
  • the ACK/NACK signal for UL (uplink) data on the PUSCH transmitted by the wireless device is sent on the PHICH.
  • the PBCH (physical broadcast channel) is transmitted in the first four OFDM symbols in the second slot of the first sub-frame of the radio frame.
  • the PBCH carries system information necessary for the wireless device to communicate with the base station, and the system information transmitted through the PBCH is denoted MIB (master information block).
  • MIB master information block
  • SIB system information block
  • the PDCCH may carry activation of VoIP (voice over internet protocol) and a set of transmission power control commands for individual UEs in some UE group, resource allocation of an upper layer control message such as a random access response transmitted on the PDSCH, system information on DL-SCH, paging information on PCH, resource allocation information of UL-SCH (uplink shared channel), and resource allocation and transmission format of DL-SCH (downlink-shared channel).
  • a plurality of PDCCHs may be sent in the control region, and the terminal may monitor the plurality of PDCCHs.
  • the PDCCH is transmitted on one CCE (control channel element) or aggregation of some consecutive CCEs.
  • the CCE is a logical allocation unit used for providing a coding rate per radio channel's state to the PDCCH.
  • the CCE corresponds to a plurality of resource element groups. Depending on the relationship between the number of CCEs and coding rates provided by the CCEs, the format of the PDCCH and the possible number of PDCCHs are determined.
  • the control information transmitted through the PDCCH is denoted downlink control information (DCI).
  • DCI may include resource allocation of PDSCH (this is also referred to as DL (downlink) grant), resource allocation of PUSCH (this is also referred to as UL (uplink) grant), a set of transmission power control commands for individual UEs in some UE group, and/or activation of VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol).
  • the base station determines a PDCCH format according to the DCI to be sent to the terminal and adds a CRC (cyclic redundancy check) to control information.
  • the CRC is masked with a unique identifier (RNTI; radio network temporary identifier) depending on the owner or purpose of the PDCCH.
  • RNTI unique identifier
  • the terminal's unique identifier such as C-RNTI (cell-RNTI)
  • a paging indicator for example, P-RNTI (paging-RNTI) may be masked to the CRC.
  • SI-RNTI system information-RNTI
  • RA-RNTI random access-RNTI
  • blind decoding is used for detecting a PDCCH.
  • the blind decoding is a scheme of identifying whether a PDCCH is its own control channel by demasking a desired identifier to the CRC (cyclic redundancy check) of a received PDCCH (this is referred to as candidate PDCCH) and checking a CRC error.
  • the base station determines a PDCCH format according to the DCI to be sent to the wireless device, then adds a CRC to the DCI, and masks a unique identifier (this is referred to as RNTI (radio network temporary identifier) to the CRC depending on the owner or purpose of the PDCCH.
  • RNTI radio network temporary identifier
  • the uplink channels include a PUSCH, a PUCCH, an SRS (Sounding Reference Signal), and a PRACH (physical random access channel).
  • Fig. 6 illustrates the architecture of an uplink sub-frame in 3GPP LTE.
  • the uplink sub-frame may be separated into a control region and a data region in the frequency domain.
  • the control region is assigned a PUCCH (physical uplink control channel) for transmission of uplink control information.
  • the data region is assigned a PUSCH (physical uplink shared channel) for transmission of data (in some cases, control information may also be transmitted).
  • the PUCCH for one terminal is assigned in resource block (RB) pair in the sub-frame.
  • the resource blocks in the resource block pair take up different sub-carriers in each of the first and second slots.
  • the frequency occupied by the resource blocks in the resource block pair assigned to the PUCCH is varied with respect to a slot boundary. This is referred to as the RB pair assigned to the PUCCH having been frequency-hopped at the slot boundary.
  • the terminal may obtain a frequency diversity gain by transmitting uplink control information through different sub-carriers over time.
  • m is a location index that indicates a logical frequency domain location of a resource block pair assigned to the PUCCH in the sub-frame.
  • the uplink control information transmitted on the PUCCH includes an HARQ (hybrid automatic repeat request), an ACK (acknowledgement)/NACK (non-acknowledgement), a CQI (channel quality indicator) indicating a downlink channel state, and an SR (scheduling request) that is an uplink radio resource allocation request.
  • HARQ hybrid automatic repeat request
  • ACK acknowledgenowledgement
  • NACK non-acknowledgement
  • CQI channel quality indicator
  • SR scheduling request
  • the PUSCH is mapped with a UL-SCH that is a transport channel.
  • the uplink data transmitted on the PUSCH may be a transport block that is a data block for the UL-SCH transmitted for the TTI.
  • the transport block may be user information.
  • the uplink data may be multiplexed data.
  • the multiplexed data may be data obtained by multiplexing the transport block for the UL-SCH and control information.
  • the control information multiplexed with the data may include a CQI, a PMI (precoding matrix indicator), an HARQ, and an RI (rank indicator).
  • the uplink data may consist only of control information.
  • LTE Long-Term Evolution
  • SC Single-Carrier
  • OFDM Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing
  • SC-FDMA may also be referred o as DFT-s OFDM (DFT-spread OFDM).
  • DFT-spread OFDM DFT-spread OFDM
  • a non-linear distortion section of a power amplifier may be avoided, so that transmission power efficiency may be increased in a terminal with limited power consumption. Accordingly, user throughput may be increased.
  • SC-FDMA is similar to OFDM in that a signal is carried over split sub-carriers using FFT (Fast Fourier Transform) and IFFT (Inverse-FFT).
  • FFT Fast Fourier Transform
  • IFFT Inverse-FFT
  • an issue with the existing OFDM transmitter lies in that signals conveyed on respective sub-carriers on frequency axis are transformed into time-axis signals by IFFT. That is, in IFFT, the same operation is operated in parallel, resulting in an increase in PAPR (Peak to Average Power Ratio).
  • PAPR Peak to Average Power Ratio
  • SC-FDMA performs IFFT after DFT spreading unlike OFDM. That is, such transmission scheme that, after DFT spreading, IFFT is conducted is referred to as SC-FDMA. Accordingly, SC-FDMA is also referred to as DFT spread OFDM (DFT-s-OFDM) in the same meaning.
  • DFT-s-OFDM DFT spread OFDM
  • advantages of SC-FDMA include providing robustness over a multi-path channel that comes from the fact that it has a similar structure to OFDM while fundamentally resolving the problem of OFDM that PAPR is increased by IFFT operation, thereby enabling effective use of a power amplifier.
  • the 3GPP is devoting its energy to standardizing LTE-Advanced that is an evolutional version of LTE, and the clustered DFT-s-OFDM scheme has been adopted which permits non-contiguous resource allocation.
  • the clustered DFT-s OFDM transmission scheme is a variation of the existing SC-FDMA transmission scheme, and in this scheme, data symbols that have undergone a precoder are split into a plurality of sub-blocks that are mapped, separated from each other in the frequency domain.
  • a major feature of the clustered DFT-s-OFDM scheme is to enable frequency-selective resource allocation so as to flexibly deal with a frequency selective fading environment.
  • the LTE-A system permits DFT_precoded data to be assigned along the frequency axis in a non-contiguous way or both a PUSCH and a PUCCH to be transmitted at the same time. In such case, it is difficult to maintain the single carrier characteristic.
  • Fig. 7 illustrates an example of comparison between a single carrier system and a carrier aggregation system.
  • CA carrier aggregation
  • a plurality of component carriers (DL CC A to C, UL CC A to C) may be assigned to the terminal.
  • Component carrier (CC) means the carrier used in then carrier aggregation system and may be briefly referred as carrier. For example, three 20MHz component carriers may be assigned so as to allocate a 60MHz bandwidth to the terminal.
  • Carrier aggregation systems may be classified into a contiguous carrier aggregation system in which aggregated carriers are contiguous and a non-contiguous carrier aggregation system in which aggregated carriers are spaced apart from each other.
  • a carrier aggregation system it should be understood as including both the case where the component carrier is contiguous and the case where the control channel is non-contiguous.
  • the component carriers may use the bandwidth adopted in the existing system for backward compatibility with the existing system.
  • the 3GPP LTE system supports bandwidths of 1.4MHz, 3MHz, 5MHz, 10MHz, 15MHz and 20MHz, and the 3GPP LTE-A system may configure a broad band of 20MHz or more only using the bandwidths of the 3GPP LTE system.
  • new bandwidths may be defined to configure a wide band.
  • the system frequency band of a wireless communication system is separated into a plurality of carrier frequencies.
  • the carrier frequency means the cell frequency of a cell.
  • the cell may mean a downlink frequency resource and an uplink frequency resource.
  • the cell may refer to a combination of a downlink frequency resource and an optional uplink frequency resource.
  • CA carrier aggregation
  • the terminal In order for packet data to be transmitted/received through a specific cell, the terminal should first complete a configuration on the specific cell.
  • the configuration means that reception of system information necessary for data transmission/ reception on a cell is complete.
  • the configuration may include an overall process of receiving common physical layer parameters or MAC (media access control) layers necessary for data transmission and reception or parameters necessary for a specific operation in the RRC layer.
  • a configuration-complete cell is in the state where, once when receiving information indicating packet data may be transmitted, packet transmission and reception may be immediately possible.
  • the cell that is in the configuration complete state may be left in an activation or deactivation state.
  • activation means that data transmission or reception is being conducted or is in ready state.
  • the terminal may monitor or receive a control channel (PDCCH) and a data channel (PDSCH) of the activated cell in order to identify resources (possibly frequency or time) assigned thereto.
  • PDCCH control channel
  • PDSCH data channel
  • the "deactivation” means that transmission or reception of traffic data is impossible while measurement or transmission/reception of minimal information is possible.
  • the terminal may receive system information (SI) necessary for receiving packets from the deactivated cell.
  • SI system information
  • the terminal does not monitor or receive a control channel (PDCCH) and data channel (PDSCH) of the deactivated cell in order to identify resources (probably frequency or time) assigned thereto.
  • PDCH control channel
  • PDSCH data channel
  • Cells may be classified into primary cells and secondary cells, serving cells.
  • the primary cell means a cell operating at a primary frequency.
  • the primary cell is a cell where the terminal conducts an initial connection establishment procedure or connection re-establishment procedure with the base station or is a cell designated as a primary cell during the course of handover.
  • the secondary cell means a cell operating at a secondary frequency.
  • the secondary cell is configured once an RRC connection is established and is used to provide an additional radio resource.
  • the serving cell is configured as a primary cell in case no carrier aggregation is configured or when the terminal cannot offer carrier aggregation.
  • the term "serving cell" denotes a cell configured to the terminal and a plurality of serving cells may be included.
  • One serving cell may consist of one downlink component carrier or a pair of ⁇ downlink component carrier, uplink component carrier ⁇ .
  • a plurality of serving cells may consist of a primary cell and one or more of all the secondary cells.
  • the PCC (primary component carrier) means a component carrier (CC) corresponding to the primary cell.
  • the PCC is, among several CCs, the one where the terminal initially achieves connection or RRC connection with the base station.
  • the PCC is a special CC that is in charge of connection or RRC connection for signaling regarding multiple CCs and manages terminal context information (UE context) that is connection information related with the terminal. Further, the PCC achieves connection with the terminal, so that the PCC is always left in the activation state when in RRC connected mode.
  • the downlink component carrier corresponding to the primary cell is denoted downlink primary component carrier (DL PCC) and the uplink component carrier corresponding to the primary cell is denoted uplink primary component carrier (UL PCC).
  • DL PCC downlink primary component carrier
  • U PCC uplink primary component carrier
  • the SCC (secondary component carrier) means a CC corresponding to a secondary cell. That is, the SCC is a CC other than the PCC, which is assigned to the terminal and is an extended carrier for the terminal to perform additional resource allocation in addition to the PCC.
  • the SCC may be left in activation state or deactivation state.
  • the downlink component carrier corresponding to the secondary cell is denoted downlink secondary component carrier (DL SCC) and the uplink component carrier corresponding to the secondary cell is denoted uplink secondary component carrier (UL SCC).
  • DL SCC downlink secondary component carrier
  • UL SCC uplink secondary component carrier
  • the primary cell and the secondary cell have the following characteristics.
  • the primary cell is used for transmitting a PUCCH.
  • the primary cell is always left activated while the secondary cell may be activated/deactivated depending on a specific condition.
  • the primary cell experiences a radio link failure (hereinafter, 'RLF')
  • RRC re-connection is triggered.
  • the primary cell may be varied by a handover procedure that comes with an RACH (random access channel) procedure or by altering a security key.
  • NAS non-access stratum
  • the primary cell has always a pair of a DL PCC and a UL PCC.
  • a different component carrier (CC) may be set as a primary cell in each terminal.
  • the primary cell may be replaced only through a handover or cell selection/cell re-selection procedure.
  • RRC signaling may be used to transmit system information of a dedicated serving cell.
  • a downlink component carrier may form one serving cell or a downlink component carrier and an uplink component carrier form a connection to thereby configure one serving cell.
  • a serving cell is not configured with one uplink component carrier alone.
  • Activation/deactivation of a component carrier is equivalent in concept to activation/ deactivation of a serving cell.
  • serving cell 1 is constituted of DL CC1
  • activation of serving cell 1 means activation of DL CC1.
  • serving cell2 is configured by connection of DL CC2 and UL CC2, activation of serving cell2 means activation of DL CC2 and UL CC2.
  • each component carrier may correspond to a serving cell.
  • the number of component carriers aggregated between uplink and downlink may vary.
  • the number of downlink CCs is the same as the number of uplink CCs is denoted symmetric aggregation, and when the numbers differ from each other is denoted asymmetric aggregation.
  • the sizes (i.e., bandwidth) of CCs may be different from each other. For example, when five CCs are used to configure a 70MHz band, the configuration may be made as follows: 5MHz CC(carrier #0) + 20MHz CC(carrier #1) + 20MHz CC(carrier #2) + 20MHz CC(carrier #3) + 5MHz CC(carrier #4).
  • the carrier aggregation system may support a plurality of component carriers (CCs), i.e., a plurality of serving cells.
  • CCs component carriers
  • Such carrier aggregation system may support cross-carrier scheduling.
  • the cross-carrier scheduling is a scheduling scheme that may conduct resource allocation of a PUSCH transmitted through other component carriers than the component carrier basically linked to a specific component carrier and/or resource allocation of a PDSCH transmitted through other component carriers through a PDCCH transmitted through the specific component carrier.
  • the PDCCH and the PDSCH may be transmitted through different downlink CCs, and the PUSCH may be transmitted through an uplink CC other than the uplink CC linked to the downlink CC where the PDCCH including a UL grant is transmitted.
  • the system supporting cross-carrier scheduling needs a carrier indicator indicating a DL CC/UL CC through which a PDSCH/PUSCH is transmitted where the PDCCH offers control information.
  • the field including such carrier indicator is hereinafter denoted carrier indication field (CIF).
  • the carrier aggregation system supporting cross-carrier scheduling may contain a carrier indication field (CIF) in the conventional DCI (downlink control information) format.
  • CIF carrier indication field
  • the cross-carrier scheduling-supportive carrier aggregation system for example, an LTE-A system, may have 3 bits expanded due to addition of the CIF to the existing DCI format (i.e., the DCI format used in the LTE system), and the PDCCH architecture may reuse the existing coding method or resource allocation method (i.e., CCE-based resource mapping).
  • Fig. 8 illustrates an example of cross-carrier scheduling in a carrier aggregation system.
  • the base station may configure a PDCCH monitoring DL CC (monitoring CC) set.
  • the PDCCH monitoring DL CC set consists of some of all the aggregated DL CCs. If cross-carrier scheduling is configured, the terminal conducts PDCCH monitoring/decoding only on the DL CCs included in the PDCCH monitoring DL CC set. In other words, the base station transmits a PDCCH for PDSCH/PUSCH to be scheduled only through the DL CCs included in the PDCCH monitoring DL CC set.
  • the PDCCH monitoring DL CC set may be configured terminal-specifically, terminal group-specifically, or cell-specifically.
  • DL CC A is set as the PDCCH monitoring DL CC set.
  • the terminal may receive a DL grant for the PDSCH of DL CC A, DL CC B, and DL CC C through the PDCCH of DL CC A.
  • the DCI transmitted through the PDCCH of DL CC A includes a CIF which allows it to be known which DL CC the DCI is for.
  • the CIF value is the same as the serving cell index value.
  • the serving cell index is transmitted to the UE through an RRC signal.
  • the serving cell index includes a value for identifying a serving cell, i.e., a first cell (primary cell) or a second cell (secondary cell). For example, 0 may represent a first cell (primary cell).
  • Fig. 9 illustrates example scheduling when cross-carrier scheduling is configured in a carrier aggregation system.
  • DL CC 0, DL CC 2, and DL CC 4 are a PDCCH monitoring DL CC set.
  • the terminal searches a DL grant/UL grant for DL CC 0, UL CC 0 (UL CC linked via SIB2 with DL CC 0) in the CSS of DL CC 0.
  • SS 1 of DL CC 0 a DL grant/UL grant for DL CC 1, UL CC 1 is searched.
  • SS 1 is an example of the USS. That is, SS 1 of DL CC 0 is a search space for searching a DL grant/UL grant performing cross-carrier scheduling.
  • the carrier aggregation (CA) technologies may be generally separated into an inter-band CA technology and an intra-band CA technology.
  • the inter-band CA is a method that aggregates and uses CCs that are present in different bands from each other
  • the intra-band CA is a method that aggregates and uses CCs in the same frequency band.
  • CA technologies are more specifically split into intra-band contiguous CA, intra-band non-contiguous CA, and inter-band non-contiguous CA.
  • Fig. 10 is a concept view illustrating intra-band carrier aggregation (CA).
  • Fig. 10(a) illustrates intra-band contiguous CA
  • Fig. 10(b) illustrates intra-band non-contiguous CA.
  • LTE-advanced adds various schemes including uplink MIMO and carrier aggregation in order to realize high-speed wireless transmission.
  • the CA that is being discussed in LTE-advanced may be split into the intra-band contiguous CA shown in Fig. 10(a) and the intra-band non-contiguous CA shown in Fig. 10(b) .
  • Fig. 11 is a concept view illustrating inter-band carrier aggregation.
  • Fig. 11(a) illustrates a combination of a lower band and a higher band for inter-band CA
  • Fig. 11(b) illustrates a combination of similar frequency bands for inter-band CA.
  • the inter-band carrier aggregation may be separated into inter-band CA between carriers of a low band and a high band having different RF characteristics of inter-band CA as shown in Fig. 11(a) and inter-band CA of similar frequencies that may use a common RF terminal per component carrier due to similar RF (radio frequency) characteristics as shown in Fig. 11(b) .
  • the 3GPP LTE/LTE-A systems define operating bands for uplink and downlink as shown in Table 2 above.
  • Four CA cases shown in Fig. 11 come from Table 2.
  • FUL_low means the lowest frequency in the uplink operating bands.
  • FUL_high means the highest frequency in the uplink operating bands.
  • FDL_low means the lowest frequency in the downlink operating bands, and FDL_high means the highest frequency in the downlink operating bands.
  • each nation's frequency distributing organization may assign specific frequencies to service providers in compliance with the nation's circumstances.
  • CA bandwidth classes and their corresponding guard bands are as shown in the following table.
  • brackets [] represent that the value therebetween is not completely determined and may be varied.
  • FFS stands for 'For Further Study.
  • 'N RB_agg is the number of RBs aggregated in an aggregation channel band.
  • Table 4 below shows bandwidth sets respective corresponding to CA configurations.
  • CA configuration represents an operating bandwidth and CA bandwidth class.
  • CA_1C means operating band 2 in Table 2 and CA band class C in Table 3. All of the CA operating classes may apply to bands that are not shown in the above table.
  • Fig. 12 illustrates the concept of unwanted emission.
  • Fig. 13 specifically illustrates out-of-band emission of the unwanted emission shown in Fig. 12.
  • Fig. 14 illustrates a relationship between the resource block RB and channel band (MHz) shown in Fig. 12 .
  • a transmission modem sends a signal over a channel bandwidth assigned in an E-UTRA band.
  • the channel bandwidth is defined as can be seen from Fig. 14 . That is, a transmission bandwidth is set to be smaller than the channel bandwidth (BWChannel).
  • the transmission bandwidth is set by a plurality of resource blocks (RBs).
  • the outer edges of the channel are the highest and lowest frequencies that are separated by the channel bandwidth.
  • the 3GPP LTE system supports channel bandwidths of 1.4MHz, 3MHz, 5MHz, 10MHz, 15MHz, and 20MHz.
  • the relationship between such channel bandwidths and the number of resource blocks is as below.
  • f OOB means the magnitude in the out-of-band (OOB).
  • OOB out-of-band
  • the out-of-band omission refers to the one that arises in a band close to an intended transmission band.
  • the spurious emission means that unwanted waves spread up to a frequency band that is far away from the intended transmission band.
  • 3GPP release 10 defines basic SE (spurious emission) that should not be exceeded according to a frequency range.
  • UTRA ACLR1 denotes a ratio of leakage to a channel 1302 to an E-UTRA channel 1301, i.e., an adjacent channel leakage ratio, in case the adjacent channel 1302 is the one for UTRA when a terminal conducts transmission on the E-UTRA channel 1301.
  • UTRA ACLR2 is a ratio of leakage to a channel 1303 (a UTRA channel) located to the adjacent channel 1302, i.e., an adjacent channel leakage ratio, in case the channel 1303 is the one for UTRA, as shown in Fig. 13 .
  • E-UTRA ACLR is a ratio of leakage to an adjacent channel 1304 (i.e., an E-UTRA channel) when the terminal conducts transmission through the E-UTRA channel 1301, i.e., an adjacent channel leakage ratio.
  • the amount of interference to adjacent bands may be reduced to an allowed reference or less by designing a high-price and bulky RF filter in view of the base station's nature.
  • the terminal it is difficult to completely prevent interference to adjacent bands due to, e.g., the limited size of terminal and limited price of the power amplifier or pre-duplex filter RF device.
  • the terminal s transmission power needs to be limited.
  • the Pcmax represents maximum power (actual maximum transmission power) where the UE may transmit in a corresponding cell
  • the Pemax represents usable maximum power in a corresponding cell to which the BS signals.
  • the Pumax represents maximum power (P PowerClass ) of the UE on which Maximum Power Reduction (hereinafter referred to as "MPR”) and Additive-MPR (hereinafter referred to as "A-MPR”) are considered.
  • MPR Maximum Power Reduction
  • A-MPR Additive-MPR
  • the maximum power P PowerClass of the UE is listed in a following table 6.
  • maximum power PPowerClass of the UE is listed in a following table 7.
  • Fig. 15 illustrates an example of a method of limiting transmission power of a terminal.
  • the terminal 100 conducts transmission with transmission power limited
  • an MPR value up to 2dB may apply depending on modulation schemes in order to maintain such linearity. This is shown in the following table.
  • Table 6 above represents MPR values for power classes 1 and 3.
  • the terminal adopts multi-cluster transmission in a single CC (component carrier) and may simultaneously transmit a PUSCH and a PUCCH.
  • the size of the IM3 component (which means a distortion signal generated by intermodulation) that occurs at an out-of-band area may be increased as compared with the existing size, and this may serve as larger interference to an adjacent band.
  • the following MPR value may be set so as to meet general spurious emission, ACLR (adjacent channel leakage ratio) and general SEM (spectrum emission mask) that are the terminal's emission requirements that should be observed by the terminal upon uplink transmission.
  • Math Figure 2 MPR CEIL M A 0.5
  • M A is as follows.
  • A N RB _ alloc / N RB .
  • N RB_agg is the number of RBs in the channel band
  • N RB_alloc is the total number of RBs that are transmitted at the same time.
  • CEIL ⁇ M A 0.5 ⁇ is a function that rounds off on a per-0.5dB basis. That is, MPRE[3.0, 3.5 4.0 4.5 5.0 5.5 6.0 6.5 7.0 7.5 8.0].
  • the MPR value shown in Equation 2 above is the one that applies when a general PA (power amplifier) is used. If a high efficiency power amplifier (HEPA) that is recently being researched is used, an MPR value of a higher level may be needed. However, despite its advantage that it may reduce power consumption and heat radiation by 30% or more, the HEPA suffers from reduced cell coverage that comes from demand of a larger MPR value. Further, since linearity is guaranteed only up to 20MHz to date, linearity is not insured considering carrier aggregation (CA).
  • CA carrier aggregation
  • the channel bandwidth of uplink may be increased up to 40MHz (20MH+20MHz), and accordingly, a larger MPR value is needed.
  • Table 9 above represents MPR values for power class 3.
  • the base station may apply A-MPR (additional maximum power reduction) by transmitting a network signal (NS) to the terminal 100.
  • A-MPR additional maximum power reduction
  • the A-MPR unlike the above-mentioned MPR, is that the base station transmits the network signal (NS) to the terminal 100 operating at a specific operating band so that the terminal 100 conducts additional power reduction in order not to affect adjacent bands, for example, not to give interference to the adjacent bands. That is, if a terminal applied with MPR receives a network signal (NS), A-MPR is additionally applied to determine transmission power.
  • the following table represents A-MPR values per network signal.
  • the following table represents A-MPR values when the network signal is NS_07.
  • RB start indicates the lowest RB index of a transmission RB.
  • L CRB indicates the length of consecutive RB allocations.
  • the terminal determines transmission power according to the above table and transmits the determined transmission power.
  • the terminal may send the A-MPR value with up to 12dB applied. Accordingly, the terminal s transmission power may apply alongside the equation for obtaining P cmax below.
  • P CMAX_L MIN P EMAX ⁇ ⁇ T C , P PowerClass ⁇ MAX MPR + A ⁇ MPR , P ⁇ MPR ⁇ ⁇ T C
  • P EMAX is given as P-Max- through an RRC signal.
  • P PowerClass represents the maximum UE power considering an allowable value.
  • P-MPR is an allowable maximum power reduction.
  • P-MPR may be obtained from the equation for yielding P CMAX .
  • T C may be 0dB or 1.5dB.
  • the channel bandwidth of uplink may be increased up to 40MHz (20MHz+20MHz), and accordingly, a larger MPR value is needed.
  • the base station transmits a network signal to the terminal to protect a specific band in the CA environment, additional power reduction is conducted in the terminal operating at the specific band, thereby protecting adjacent bands.
  • the following table represents CA configurations corresponding to network signals.
  • A-MPR for CS_NS_01 is summarized in detail in the following table.
  • Guard band Frequency range (MHz) Maximum level (dBm) MBW (MHz) E-UTRA band 34 F DL_low - F DL_high -50 1 Frequency range 1884.5 - 1915.7 -41 0.3
  • A-MPR for CS_NS_02 is summarized in detail in the following table.
  • Guard band Frequency range (MHz) Maximum level (dBm) MBW (MHz) E-UTRA band 34 F DL_low - F DL_high -50 1 Frequency range 1900 - 1915 -15.5 5 Frequency range 1915 - 1920 +1.6 5
  • A-MPR for CS_NS_03 is summarized in detail in the following table.
  • Guard band Frequency range (MHz) Maximum level (dBm) MBW (MHz) E-UTRA band 34 F DL_low - F DL_high -50 1 Frequency range 1880 - 1895 -40 1 Frequency range 1895 - 1915 -15.5 5 Frequency range 1915 - 1920 +1.6 5
  • Fig. 16 illustrates a used example of operating bands by continents.
  • bands 1, 3, 7, 20, 38, 40, 42, 43, and the like among the operating bands listed in the table 2 are used in Europe. Further, bands 1, 8, 9, 11, 13, 18 to 21, 26, 33, 34, 38 to 42, and the like among the operating bands listed in the table 2 are used in Asia. Bands 2, 4, 7, 12 to 14, 17, 23 to 30, 41, and the like are used in North America, and bands 2 to 4, 5, 7,13, 17, 38, and the like are used in South America.
  • the band 1 is intended to be used in Asia or Europe but is not intended to be used in South America or North America according to 3GPP.
  • the band 5 is intended to be used in North America or South America but is not intended to be publicly used in Asia or Europe.
  • a maximum level with respect to emission of a spurious region is simulated to meet bands used in respective continents. That is, only a maximum level with respect to a spurious emission between operating bands (for example, bands 1, 8, 9, 11, 13, 18 to 21, 26, 33, 34, and 38 to 42) for only Asia is simulated in Asia. Only a maximum level with respect to the spurious emission between operating bands (for example, bands 2 to 4, 7,13, 17, and 38) for only South America is simulated in South America.
  • a provider wishes to use a band (for example, band 5) which is not recommended and considered from 3GPP in some country (for example, Korea) of Asia.
  • a provider wishes to use a band (for example, band 1) which is not previously considered in some country (for example, Brazil) of South America. Accordingly, some country (for example, Korea) uses the band 5, the spurious emission is leaked into other bands. Accordingly, interference occurs in the other bands. That is, a boundary of a use of a frequency by continents is broken so that there causes a spurious emission problem which is not previously considered.
  • a following table 16 illustrates a situation in some countries including recently added bands.
  • Figs. 17A and 17B are exemplary diagrams illustrating bands used in Korea of Asia.
  • a protected band includes bands 1, 3, 5, 8, 26, and 40.
  • LGU+, KT, and SKT are using a neighboring band 3 in Korea.
  • Figs. 18A and 18B are exemplary diagrams illustrating bands used in Brazil of South America.
  • a protected band in Brazil includes bands 1, 3, 5, 7, 8, 26, 27, 28, 38, and 42.
  • Fig. 19A is a graph illustrating an experimental result with respect to a band 1
  • Fig. 19B is a graph illustrating an experimental result with respect to a band 5.
  • I/Q imbalance operates as diffusion between symmetrical sub-carriers to degrade performance.
  • the unit dBc represents a relative size based on power of a carrier frequency.
  • Carrier leakage is an additional sine wave having the same frequency as a carrier frequency of a modulation wave.
  • Counter IM3 Counter Intermodulation Distortion
  • a component such as a mixer and an amplifier in an RF system.
  • a maximum level of spurious emission SE to downlink 1805 to 1880MHz of a neighboring band 3 is about -48dBm/MHz.
  • a maximum level of spurious emission SE to downlink of band 5 is about -35dBm/MHz.
  • a current emission regulation value for protecting basic UE-to-UE uses - 50dBm. Deterministic analysis with respect to this is a value calculated by a following assumption, and is used as general UE-to-UE coexistence requirements in 3GPP.
  • a spurious emission level of UE-to-UE using minimum coupling loss (MCL) may be derived from the above assumption.
  • the noise increase allowed in the reception is an interference level estimated as follows.
  • MCL level is derived as follows.
  • the emission level is calculated as - 50.56dBm/1MHz.
  • a maximum level of the spurious emission SE required for UE-to-UE coexistence may be determined as approximately - 50dBm/MHz.
  • a UE-to-UE coexistence problem in Asia, that is, in Korea is as follows.
  • Downlink of band 3 (1805 to 1880MHz) : has a gap of 40MHz from the band 1. Accordingly, a maximum level of the spurious emission may be the range of -40 to - 50dBm/MHz.
  • Band 40 (2300 to 2400MHz) : has a gap of 320MHz from band 1. Accordingly, a maximum level of the spurious emission may be -50dBm/MHz.
  • Downlink of band 26 (859 to 894MHz) : has a gap of 10MHz from the band 5. Accordingly, the maximum level of the spurious emission may be -27 dBm/MHz.
  • Downlink of band 8 (925 to 960MHz) : has a gap of 76 MHz from the band 5. Accordingly, the maximum level of the spurious emission may be -50 dBm/MHz.
  • a UE-to-UE coexistence problem in South America, that is, in Brazil is as follows.
  • Downlink of band 3 (1805 to 1880MHz) : has a gap of 40 MHz from the band 1. Accordingly, the maximum level of the spurious emission may be calculated as the range of -40 to -50 dBm/MHz.
  • Band 40 (2300 to 2400MHz) : has a gap of 320 MHz from the band 1. Accordingly, the maximum level of the spurious emission may be calculated as -50 dBm/MHz.
  • band 38 (2570 to 2620MHz), downlink of band 7 (2620 to 2690MHz), and band 43 (3600 to 3800MHz): Since there is no harmonic component or intermodulation distortion (IMD), a general UE-to-UE coexistence problem may be solved. Accordingly, the maximum level of the spurious emission may be calculated as - 50dBm/MHz.
  • IMD intermodulation distortion
  • Downlink of band 26 (859 to 894MHz) : has a gap of 10 MHz from the band 5. Accordingly, the maximum level of the spurious emission may be calculated as -27 dBm/ MHz.
  • Downlink of band 26 (859 to 894MHz) : has a gap of 10 MHz from the band 5. Accordingly, the maximum level of the spurious emission may be calculated as -27 dBm/ MHz.
  • Downlink of band 8 (925 to 960MHz) : has a gap of 76 MHz from the band 5. Accordingly, the maximum level of the spurious emission may be calculated as -50 dBm/ MHz.
  • Downlink of band 27 (852 to 869MHz) : has a gap of 3 MHz from the band 5. Accordingly, the maximum level of the spurious emission may be calculated as 1.6dBm/5MHz with respect to 849 to 854MHz. The maximum level of the spurious emission may be calculated as -15.5 dBm/5MHz with respect to 854 to 869MHz.
  • Downlink of band 28 (758 to 803MHz) : has a gap of 21 MHz from the band 5. Accordingly, the maximum level of the spurious emission may be calculated as -37 dBm/ MHz.
  • E-UTRA CA configuration Spurious emission Protected bands Frequency range (MHz) Maximum level (dBm) MBW (MHz)
  • CA_1A-5A E-UTRA bands 1, 3, 5, 7, 8, 38, 40,42 F DL_low - F DL_high -50 1
  • E-UTRA band 26 FDL_low - FDL_high -27 1
  • E-UTRA band 28 F DL_low - F DL_high -37 1
  • Remark 1 The measurements are applied to a region in which systems for CA 1A-5A UE are disposed.
  • Remark 2 An FDL_low and an FDL_high represent a frequency listed in table 2.
  • Remark 3 CA 1A-5A UE does not need to protect band 27 beyond SEM limitation.
  • a second scheme to set UE-to-UE coexistence requirements sets UE-to-UE coexistence requirements by regions or countries.
  • the spurious emission SE requirements should be set by countries such as Korea and Brazil or by regions (or continents).
  • interference issue occurs at other region and other country upon roaming so that CA 1A-5A cannot be used. Only when a UE using band 1 of 3GPP release 8 and 9 or band 5 is used, the interference may be prevented.
  • the second scheme may be one solution.
  • E-UTRA CA configuration Spurious emission Protected bands Frequency range (MHz) Maximum level (dBm) MBW (MHz) Remarks CA_1A-5A Asia E-UTRA bands 1, 3, 5, 8, 40 F DL_low - F DL_high -50 1 E-UTRA band 26 F DL_low - F DL_high -27 1 CA_1A-5A South America E-UTRA Band 1, 3, 5, 7, 8, 38, 43 F DL_low - F DL_high -50 1 E-UTRA band 26 F DL_low - F DL_high -27 1 E-UTRA band 28 F DL_low - F DL_high -37 1 Remark 1: The measurements are applied to a region in which systems for CA 1A-5A UE are disposed.Remark 2: An FDL_low and an FDL_high represent a frequency listed in table 2.Remark 3: CA 1A-5A UE does not need to protect band 27 beyond SEM limitation.
  • a third scheme to set UE-to-UE coexistence requirements sets UE-to-UE coexistence requirements with respect to all bands defined as protected bands for an existing band and all protected bands of the band 5. This may solve all interference issues between neighboring UEs upon global roaming and allows inter-band CA 1A-5A to be used in all regions. Accordingly, the third scheme sets requirements with respect to E-UTRA bands 1, 3, 7, 8, 9, 11, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 26, 27, 28, 33, 34, 38, 39, 40, 42, 43, and 44 serving as a protected band of band 1 and a PHS band, and sets requirements with respect to E-UTRA bands 2, 4, 5, 10, 12, 13, 14, 17, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26,27, 28, 41, 42, and 43 serving as a protected band of band 5.
  • the third scheme cannot be used in countries and regions in which operating band partially overlapped or perfectly subset between actual operating bands are used.
  • downlink of the band 2 is 1930-1990 MHz
  • the downlink of the band 2 overlaps with downlink of the band 1 during a period of 1930 to 1980MHz.
  • the downlink of the band 2 cannot be discriminated by a duplexer or a filter.
  • a UE of the band 1 significantly interferes with an UE of a neighboring band 2.
  • the band 2 or the band 25 and the band 25 cannot be used in the same region.
  • E-UTRA CA configuration Spurious emission Protected bands Frequency range Maximum level (dBm) MBW (MHz) Remarks CA_1A-5A E-UTRA bands 1, 4, 5, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 17, 19, 21, 22, 23, 24, 38, 40, 42, and 43 F DL_low - F DL_high -50 1 E-UTRA bands 3 and 34 F DL_low - F DL_high -50 1 6 E-UTRA band 26 F DL_low - F DL_high -27 1 E-UTRA band 28 F DL_low - F DL_high -37 1 E-UTRA band 41 F DL_low - F DL_high -50 1 5 E-UTRA band 18 F DL_low - F DL_high -27 1 E-UTRA band 44 F DL_low - F DL_high -37 1 Frequency range (band 39) 1880 1895 -40 1 6,27 Frequency range (bands 33,39) 1895 1915 -1
  • E-UTR A band Spurious emission Protected Bands Frequency range (MHz) Maximu m level (dBm) MBW (MHz) Remark s 1 E-UTRA Bands 1, 7, 8, 11, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 26, 27, 28, 31, 38, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44 F DL_low - F DL_high -50 1 E-UTRA Bands 5 F DL_low - F DL_high -50 1 32 E-UTRA Bands 3, 34 F DL_low - F DL_high -50 1 15 Frequency Range 1880 1895 -40 1 15,27 Frequency Range 1895 1915 -15.5 5 15, 26, 27 Frequency Range 1915 1920 +1.6 5 15, 26, 27 Frequency Range 1884.
  • FIG. 20 illustrates an operation of UE according to the present invention.
  • FIG. 20(a) illustrates an example where a provider A and a provider B simultaneously provide a service to a specific region.
  • a BS of the provider A transmits a Master Information Block (MIB) and a System Information Block (SIB).
  • MIB Master Information Block
  • SIB System Information Block
  • the SIB may include at least one of information on operating bands used by the BS, information on a uplink UL bandwidth, and information on a uplink UL carrier frequency among operating bands listed in the table 2.
  • a UE of a provider A determines whether the set CA corresponds to inter-band CA.
  • the CA may be set by receiving setting of a secondary cell. Further, the CA may be activated by receiving a signal on activation of a secondary cell.
  • each carrier wave has the band 1 and the band 5, and the number of resource blocks RBs of each band is 100 or less, the UE of a provider A transmits a maximum level of spurious emission less than a value listed in one of the tables 16 to 19 leaked as a protected band listed in one of tables 16 to 19.
  • the UE of the provider A transmits a maximum value of spurious emission leaked to a protected band listed in table 19 less than a value listed in the table 19.
  • Embodiment of the present invention may be implemented through various means.
  • the embodiments of the present invention may be implemented by hardware, firmware, software, or a combination thereof.
  • the method according to the embodiments of the present invention may be implemented using Application Specific Integrated Circuits (ASICs), digital signal processors (DSPs), digital signal processing devices (DSPDs), programmable logic devices (PLDs), field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs), processors, controllers, micro-controllers, microprocessors.
  • ASICs Application Specific Integrated Circuits
  • DSPs digital signal processors
  • DSPDs digital signal processing devices
  • PLDs programmable logic devices
  • FPGAs field programmable gate arrays
  • processors controllers, micro-controllers, microprocessors.
  • the method according to the embodiments of the present invention may be implemented in the form of a module, a procedure or a function to perform the above functions or operation.
  • a software code is stored in a memory unit so that the software code may be driven by a processor.
  • the memory unit may be located inside or outside the processor to exchange data with the processor by various know means.
  • the wireless communication system according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIG. 21 .
  • Fig. 21 is a block diagram illustrating a wireless communication system according to an embodiment of the present invention.
  • a base station 200 includes a processor 201, a memory 202, and a radio frequency (RF) unit 203.
  • the memory 202 is connected to the processor 201 to store various information for driving the processor 201.
  • the RF unit 203 is connected to the processor 201 to transmit and/receive a wireless signal.
  • the processor 201 implements a suggested function, procedure, and/or method. An operation of the base station 200 according to the above embodiment may be implemented by the processor 201.
  • a wireless device 100 includes a processor 101, a memory 102, and an RF unit 103.
  • the memory 102 is connected to the processor 101 to store various information for driving the processor 101.
  • the RF unit 103 is connected to the processor 101 to transmit and/receive a wireless signal.
  • the processor 101 implements a suggested function, procedure, and/or method. An operation of the wireless 100 according to the above embodiment may be implemented by the processor 201.
  • a processor may include an application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC), another chipset, a logic circuit, and/or a data processor.
  • a memory may include read-only memory (ROM), random access memory (RAM), a flash memory, a memory card, a storage medium, and/or other storage devices.
  • An RF unit may include a baseband circuit to process an RF signal.
  • the above scheme may be implemented by a module (procedure, function, and the like) to perform the above function.
  • the module is stored in the memory and may be implemented by the processor.
  • the memory may be located inside or outside the processor, and may be connected to the processor through various known means.

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  1. Procédé pour limiter une émission parasite, le procédé étant réalisé par un équipement utilisateur, UE, et comprenant :
    configurer un émetteur-récepteur de l'UE pour utiliser des bandes d'accès radio terrestre universel évolué, E-UTRA, 1 et 5 pour une agrégation de porteuses inter-bandes ;
    déterminer au moins une bande protégée pour protéger n'importe quel autre UE à l'aide de l'au moins une bande protégée ;
    lorsque l'émetteur-récepteur est configuré pour utiliser les bandes E-UTRA 1 et 5 pour l'agrégation de porteuses inter-bandes et qu'une bande E-UTRA 26 est déterminée comme étant l'au moins une bande protégée, configurer l'émetteur-récepteur pour régler un niveau maximal de l'émission parasite de l'UE dans la bande 26 à - 27 dBm ; et
    lorsque l'émetteur-récepteur est configuré pour utiliser les bandes E-UTRA 1 et 5 pour l'agrégation de porteuses inter-bandes et qu'une bande E-UTRA 42 est déterminée comme étant l'au moins une bande protégée, configurer l'émetteur-récepteur pour régler le niveau maximal de l'émission parasite de l'UE dans la bande 42 à - 50 dBm.
  2. Procédé selon la revendication 1, comprenant en outre
    lorsque l'émetteur-récepteur est configuré pour utiliser les bandes E-UTRA 1 et 5 pour l'agrégation de porteuses inter-bandes et qu'au moins l'une parmi des bandes E-UTRA 1, 3, 5, 7, 8, 38 et 40 est déterminée comme étant l'au moins une bande protégée, configurer l'émetteur-récepteur de l'UE pour régler le niveau maximal de l'émission parasite de l'UE dans la bande protégée à - 50 dBm.
  3. Procédé selon la revendication 1, comprenant en outre
    lorsque l'émetteur-récepteur est configuré pour utiliser les bandes E-UTRA 1 et 5 pour l'agrégation de porteuses inter-bandes et qu'une bande E-UTRA 28 est déterminée comme étant l'au moins une bande protégée, configurer l'émetteur-récepteur de l'UE pour régler le niveau maximal de l'émission parasite de l'UE dans la bande 28 à - 37 dBm.
  4. Procédé selon la revendication 1, comprenant en outre
    recevoir une configuration associée à l'agrégation de porteuses des bandes E-UTRA 1 et 5.
  5. Équipement utilisateur, UE, pour émettre un signal de liaison montante, comprenant :
    un émetteur-récepteur configuré pour émettre le signal de liaison montante ; et
    un processeur connecté de manière fonctionnelle à l'émetteur-récepteur, le processeur étant configuré pour :
    configurer l'émetteur-récepteur pour utiliser des bandes d'accès radio terrestre universel évolué, E-UTRA, 1 et 5 pour une agrégation de porteuses inter-bandes ;
    déterminer au moins une bande protégée pour protéger n'importe quel autre UE à l'aide de l'au moins une bande protégée ;
    lorsque l'émetteur-récepteur est configuré pour utiliser les bandes E-UTRA 1 et 5 pour l'agrégation de porteuses inter-bandes et qu'une bande E-UTRA 26 est déterminée comme étant l'au moins une bande protégée, configurer l'émetteur-récepteur pour régler un niveau maximal de l'émission parasite de l'UE dans la bande 26 à - 27 dBm ; et
    lorsque l'émetteur-récepteur est configuré pour utiliser les bandes E-UTRA 1 et 5 pour l'agrégation de porteuses inter-bandes et qu'une bande E-UTRA 42 est déterminée comme étant l'au moins une bande protégée, configurer l'émetteur-récepteur pour régler le niveau maximal de l'émission parasite dudit UE dans la bande 42 à - 50 dBm.
  6. UE selon la revendication 5, dans lequel le processeur est en outre configuré pour :
    lorsque l'émetteur-récepteur est configuré pour utiliser les bandes E-UTRA 1 et 5 pour l'agrégation de porteuses inter-bandes et qu'au moins l'une parmi des bandes E-UTRA 1, 3, 5, 7, 8, 38 et 40 est déterminée comme étant l'au moins une bande protégée, configurer l'émetteur-récepteur pour régler le niveau maximal de l'émission parasite de l'UE dans la bande protégée à - 50 dBm.
  7. UE selon la revendication 5, dans lequel le processeur est en outre configuré pour :
    lorsque l'émetteur-récepteur est configuré pour utiliser les bandes E-UTRA 1 et 5 pour l'agrégation de porteuses inter-bandes et qu'une bande E-UTRA 28 est déterminée comme étant l'au moins une bande protégée, configurer l'émetteur-récepteur de l'UE pour régler le niveau maximal de l'émission parasite de l'UE dans la bande 28 à - 37 dBm.
  8. Procédé selon la revendication 1,
    dans lequel un nombre de blocs de ressources, RB, dans chacune des bandes E-UTRA 1 et 5 est égal ou inférieur à 100.
  9. Procédé selon la revendication 1,
    dans lequel la bande E-UTRA 1 comprend une bande de fonctionnement en liaison montante de 1920-1980 MHz et une bande de fonctionnement en liaison descendante de 2110-2170 MHz,
    dans lequel la bande E-UTRA 5 comprend une bande de fonctionnement en liaison montante de 824-849 MHz et une bande de fonctionnement en liaison descendante de 869-894 MHz,
    dans lequel la bande E-UTRA 26 comprend une bande de fonctionnement en liaison montante de 814-849 MHz et une bande de fonctionnement en liaison descendante de 859-894 MHz, et
    dans lequel la bande E-UTRA 42 comprend une bande de fonctionnement en liaison montante de 3400-3600 MHz et une bande de fonctionnement en liaison descendante de 3400-3600 MHz.
  10. Procédé selon la revendication 3,
    dans lequel la bande E-UTRA 28 comprend une bande de fonctionnement en liaison montante de 703-748 MHz et une bande de fonctionnement en liaison descendante de 758-803 MHz.
  11. UE selon la revendication 5, dans lequel le processeur est en outre configuré pour :
    commander l'émetteur-récepteur de façon à recevoir une configuration associée à l'agrégation de porteuses inter-bandes des bandes E-UTRA 1 et 5.
  12. UE selon la revendication 5,
    dans lequel un nombre de blocs de ressources, RB, dans chacune des bandes E-UTRA 1 et 5 est égal ou inférieur à 100.
  13. UE selon la revendication 5,
    dans lequel la bande E-UTRA 1 comprend une bande de fonctionnement en liaison montante de 1920-1980 MHz et une bande de fonctionnement en liaison descendante de 2110-2170 MHz,
    dans lequel la bande E-UTRA 5 comprend une bande de fonctionnement en liaison montante de 824-849 MHz et une bande de fonctionnement en liaison descendante de 869-894 MHz,
    dans lequel la bande E-UTRA 26 comprend une bande de fonctionnement en liaison montante de 814-849 MHz et une bande de fonctionnement en liaison descendante de 859-894 MHz, et
    dans lequel la bande E-UTRA 42 comprend une bande de fonctionnement en liaison montante de 3400-3600 MHz et une bande de fonctionnement en liaison descendante de 3400-3600 MHz.
  14. UE selon la revendication 7,
    dans lequel la bande E-UTRA 28 comprend une bande de fonctionnement en liaison montante de 703-748 MHz et une bande de fonctionnement en liaison descendante de 758-803 MHz.
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